10 Quotes by Lee Berger

I almost dropped down when I looked into the eyes of the skull as I saw the marks... they were perfect examples of eagle damage. Thousands of scientists, including myself, had overlooked this critical damage.

I think that if I took this into a court of law and put this (theory) forward, then we have conclusively and beyond a reasonable doubt proved that the African crowned eagle was the killer.

Most of my colleagues felt we had reached the end of the road in solving this problem. It was the ultimate two-million-year-old cold case!

With a single depression fracture at the back of the head, we believed that the only animal capable of inflicting a wound like this was a raptor but we could not prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.

It was the ultimate 2 million-year-old cold case.

These birds would have been after the most vulnerable members of the group.

It shows that it was not only big cats our ancestors had to be afraid of. It was also these creatures from the air -- aerial bombardment if you will, that were stressors to our ancestors that grew and shaped and formed our behavior today.

Everyone has the same right not to be sexually harassed. The issue is what remedies the legislature lays out. For employees, you have these remedies, and for non-employees, you have these other remedies.

It just shows that you can never stop looking. Just because something has been studied for years doesn't mean that it can't still tell us new things.